Lyceum -- University of Mississippi, Oxford MS
N 34° 21.914 W 089° 32.161
16S E 266782 N 3805567
The state historic marker at the Lyceum, a historic building on the University of Mississippi campus.
Waymark Code: WMWZQJ
Location: Mississippi, United States
Date Posted: 11/05/2017
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The Lyceum, one of the most historic buildings on the University of Mississippi campus, has served as a field hospital the Civil War site desegregation of Mississippi institutions of higher education almost exactly one hundred years later.
The state historic marker reads as follows:
"THE LYCEUM
The Lyceum, which open for the first University of Mississippi class in 1848, symbolizes the origins, endurance, and triumphs of higher education in Mississippi. During the Civil War, the building served as a hospital for Union and Confederate soldiers. In 1962 was the scene of a major event in the civil rights movement. After a night long riot, the University’s first African-American student, James Meredith, enrolled in the Lyceum. An extensive structural renovation was completed in 2001.
Mississippi Department of Archives and History, 2002"
Date Installed:: 2002
Organization that placed the object:: State of Mississippi
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